[pydata-outreach-staff] Laptop setup guide, and questions

[Asheesh Laroia]

Status of the setup guide so far:

* Discovered an un under-documented dependency on Cython -- the build from 
git abruptly fails in the absence of Cython (it's in the README, but in 
the 'optional' section, so I missed it) (all platforms)

* Discovered the build fails with a confusing error message with Cython 
0.15; requires Cython 0.17.1 (all platforms)

* Discovered EPD doesn't include Cython, so users would have to install 
that (Windows-related)

* Tested EPD with the MinGW compiler, as suggested; 
http://bugs.python.org/issue12641 AKA 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6034390/compiling-with-cython-and-mingw-produces-gcc-error-unrecognized-command-line-o 
are preventing the compile from finishing.

* Discovered that it all builds fine with Anaconda Python, so that might 
be worth recommending (Windows-related) (Probably the fact that Anaconda 
bundles Cython works around the mingw issue)

I hoped the build would be more straightforward; I still aim to have a 
workable version of these notes produced by today, but it might be pretty 
late in the day.

During the sprint, I might focus my own work on smoothing out these sorts 
of build issues and submitting pull requests with those changes.

-- Asheesh.